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Partially moving from LaTeX to ConTeXt
by Vittorio 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

At last, I 'almost' made up my mind about using ConTeXt to write generic document (for me and my daughters' school), report and manuals at work. The only snag at this very moment is that - being my Company M$-Windows addicted, specifically as far as Word is concerned - I don't know if there is any free software to translate a document from ConTeXt to word, even partially (something like the katex2rtf package for latex).

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latest Beta
by Guy Worthington 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

ConTeXt is barfing on my code : ----- %output=pdf %% chapter head layout \setupcolors[state=start] \setuplist[section] [style=boldslanted, align=right, interaction=all, symbol=1, width=1em, pagenumber=no, before=, after=] \setuphead[chapter] [header=empty, numberstyle=ChapterTitleNumberFont, textstyle=ChapterTitleTextFont alternative=command, command=\ContentsHead, page=right, after={\blank[2*big]}] \definefont[ChapterTitleTextFont][Serif at 24.9pt] \definefont[ChapterTitleNumberFont][SerifBold at 40pt] \def\ContentsHead#1#2% {\setupframed [frame=off]% \framed [width=\hsize,offset=overlay] {\placesidebyside {\doifelsenothing{#1} {\framed [width=.6\hsize]{}} % dummy {\framed [width=.6\hsize,offset=1em,strut=no,align=right, background=screen] {\vi In this chapter: \blank \placelist[section][criterium=chapter]}}} {\framed [width=.4\hsize,strut=no,align=left] %% Typeset Chapter Number {\hbox{\vbox to 24.9pt{% height ChapterTitleTextFont \vss #1}}} \vfilll} }% %% Typeset Chapter Title \llap{\lower24.9pt\hbox{#2\hskip0.5em}}} \showmakeup \starttext \chapter {Berend} \section {Botje} \section {Botje} \section {Botje} \stoptext ----- Attached is the log: This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.14159-1.10a-2.1 (Web2c 7.4.5) (format=cont-en 2003.3.20) 20 MAR 2003 16:54 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. **&cont-en tryOreillyHead.ctx (./tryOreillyHead.ctx{c:/Local/TeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.3.17 fmt: 2003.3.20 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded \openout2 = `tryOreillyHead.tui'. system : tryOreillyHead.top loaded (./tryOreillyHead.top specials : loading definition file tpd (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1815] \ifcsname <unprotect 5> <protect 5> <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) \openout0 = `tryOreillyHead-mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `tryOreillyHead-mprun.mp'. \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mprun.mp'. pdftex : using map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : using map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : using map file: original-vogel-symbol.map color : system rgb is global activated check : missing or ungrouped '=' after 'textstyle' in line 21 (@@kocha pter) systems : begin file tryOreillyHead at line 46 ! Extra \else. \dodododosomekop ...section {#1}{#3}{#4}\fi \else \getvalue {\??ko #1\c!tuss... l.47 \chapter {Berend} ? exit Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 760 strings out of 67881 11732 string characters out of 747287 4407533 words of memory out of 5520295 30740 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 10582 words of font info for 35 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000 56 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000 31i,8n,26p,188b,301s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,5000p,200000b,40000s 0 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 131072 0 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536 No pages of output. ---- My attempt at trying at tracing the error have been futile.

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Caption size of math
by Mikael Persson 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

Hello everybody! I use a ConTeXt beta that is a week old or so on teTeX. When I change the caption size to small with \setupcaptions[style=small] I get small text as I want, but the size of math in captions are at the normal size. How should I do to get even the math in the smaller font? Here is a document that shows the problem. ==== start test document \setupcaptions[style=small] \starttext \input knuth \reservefigure[here][fig:lambdarmax]{A $\lambda$-$r_M$-diagram. The solution of equation (1) when $\lambda=3.5299$. When $\lambda=3.53$ se see that we don't get a solution.} \input knuth \stoptext ==== stop test document Thanks in advance, Micke P

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Correspondence Manual
by Victor Sanchez Urrutia 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Hello Hans and all, I cannot find the Correspondence manual at the Pragma site (xcorresp.pdf, I think, should be the name). Are those macros not available or out of date? -- --------------- Victor Sanchez Urrutia PhD Director de Sistemas de Información Promed S.A.

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Re: foonotes
by Magnus Lie Hetland 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de>: > > Magnus Lie Hetland <magnus(a)hetland.org> writes: > > >> could you send me the dvi (not pdf) file of the following output: > > > > Attached. > > the \tfx and \tfxx don't so anything (they are the same size as \tf). > > I have absolutely no idea how this can happen. It is far beyound my > knowledge of ConTeXt. You might think about > > a) trying typescript [times] instead of [palatino] (but I guess it > won't do anything better) Having to use times would certainly be a disappointment... :] > b) send the dvi file to the list and ask the list (= Hans ;-} ) OK... Attaching dvi file again, and Cc'ing the list. (I hope attachments are OK when they're as small as this?) The erroneous version comes from the Solaris installation (which isn't really mine). I ran the same code on the Linux installation, and there \tfx and \tfxx worked just fine. (Still a bit confused about such things as \ss and \sc here -- \ss seems to simply use Palatino, and \sc doesn't seem to produce small caps...?) > Patrick -- Magnus Lie Hetland "Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." http://hetland.org -- Indiana Jones

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Emacs color definitions for ConTeXt
by Peter Rolf 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Thanks to Hans and Giuseppe for your fast reply. For all emacs users I included a file, which contains the context color definitions of rgb.txt. Select the menu Edit->Text Properties->Display Colors and take a look. You may find it useful. Peter

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Floats in Columnsets
by Michal Kvasnicka 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Dear Sir Hagen, I know you are writing the complete manual for the columnsets, nonetheless I dare to bother you in advance. What are options for telling floats to what column, line and page they should go? I hade some examples from you, but I lost it when my harddisc crashed. Can you help me? Many thanks and greetings, Michal Kvasnicka

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Re: colors
by Magnus Lie Hetland 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de>: > > > Hello, > > for the colors, use \setupcolors[state=start] (plural). Ah -- right, thanks. It works now. There is a typo in the beginner's manual (the "excursion") on page 59 -- it says \setupcolor[state=start]. (On the previous page, the general form is mentioned as \setupcolors[...], but I simply copied the statement to my code.) > If you need, I can send you a small test document. No problem. I was simply mislead by the documentation ;) > Pat -- Magnus Lie Hetland "Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." http://hetland.org -- Indiana Jones

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reusing metapost graphics
by Matthew Huggett 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Hi: I'm designing a year's worth of English lessons for some Japanese kids, and I'm using Metapost and ConTeXt to generate flashcards for vocabulary training. I have a few questions: (1) I want to keep my Metapost figures defined in a ConTeXt environment file so that I can recall them as I need in future lessons. Is there anything wrong with this approach? (2) How do I make a Metapost figure defined in a ConTeXt file reusable? Do I need to wrap the definition of the figure in a macro so that the figure is recreated everytime I need it? (3) With \useMPgraphic, is there any mechanism to scale the image as with \useexternalfigure? If this is all in the documentation, I apologize. (I would appreciate a pointer to the documentation though :-) )

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Umlaute, texnansi
by Raimund Kohl 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Hello there, I accidently switched from SuSE to Debian (via Knoppix) and all of a sudden ran into problems. With: ----------------------------------------------- % interface=en tex=pdfetex output=pdftex \setupwhitespace[big] \mainlanguage[de] \enableregime[utf8] % \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \starttext Und jetzt auch gleich mal die Umlaute testen, sowie vielleicht Ähnlichkeit der Öffentlichkeit die auch mal beißen kann \stoptext ----------------------------------------------- the document will be processed ... without the german Umlaute (Ä, Ö etc). And if I uncomment \setupencoding[default=texnansi] texexec stops with the message: ! Undefined control sequence. l.5 \setupencoding [default=texnansi] ? (./Context_text.tuo) (./Context_text.tuo) systems : begin file Context_text at line 6 Missing character: There is no Ä in font cmr12! Missing character: There is no Ö in font cmr12! Missing character: There is no ß in font cmr12! [1.1{/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map}] systems : end file Context_text at line 11 ) -------------------------------------- What did I do wrong? ray

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